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Please join Doug Noland and David McAlvany this coming Thursday, January 30th, at 4:00 pm Eastern/2:00 pm Mountain Time for the McAlvany Wealth Management Tactical Short Q4 recap conference call, “Historic ‘24 Excess Portends Precarious 2025.” Click here to register. For Posterity. He certainly wasted no time; hit the ground running – and swinging. President […]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Dollar Slides as Trump Softens China Tariff Stance: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Flirts With Record High as Trump China Comments Hit Dollar [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Set for First Weekly Drop This Year as Trump Rattles Market [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Says He Would ‘Rather Not’ Have to Impose Tariffs on China [Axios] Trump 2.0 softens on China […]

Gold and precious metals continue their march higher this week, buoyed by continued enthusiasm for the new US president and administration. Let’s take a look at where prices stand as of our recording on January 23: The price of gold is up 2.5%, sitting at around $2,756. That’s only about $35 away from its previous […]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stock Rally Flags With S&P 500 on Brink of Record: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Holds Near $79 With Focus on Rising Stockpiles, Trump Moves [Reuters] Morning Bid: Stocks hover near new records, oil ebbs [AP] More Americans file for unemployment benefits last week, continuing claims highest in 3 years [Reuters] New wildfire near Los […]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks March Higher With Netflix Poised for Record: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Advances to 11-Week High as Trump Hints at China Tariffs [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Oil Recovers as Traders Assess Trump Tariffs, Russia Sanctions [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Trump Threatens 10% Tariff on China, Cites Trade Deficit With EU [Yahoo/Reuters] Factbox-US imports from Canada, Mexico in 2024 as tariff […]

Executive Orders Signal Immediate Change Mr. Bond Vigilante Still Has The Strongest Say Uncertainty The Best Driver To Gold “So returning to the executive orders, at the end of page 2, I was saying, “Wow.” At the end of page 5, each page with at least 10 executive orders on it, it was awe-inspiring, ambitious […]

[Yahoo/Bloomberg] Stocks Rise as Jitters Over Tariff Threat Subside: Markets Wrap [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Gold Advances as Trump Stands By Plans for Mexico, Canada Tariff [Yahoo/Bloomberg] US Bonds Rise as Tariff Respite for China Eases Inflation Fears [Yahoo/Bloomberg] Dollar Advances as Trump Eyes More Canada, Mexico Tariffs [Yahoo/Bloomberg] A Rundown of Trump’s Executive Actions, From Tariffs to […]

When Adam Smith penned his seminal work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, he discussed the concept of the “unseen hand” at work in markets. When he did that in the years leading up to 1776, he was writing to a West that was still predominantly Christian, so it […]